Hope Hodge Seck

Hope Hodge Seck is an award-winning investigative and enterprise reporter who has been covering military issues since 2009. She is managing editor for Military.com.

Hope’s previous assignments have included a war zone embed in Afghanistan with Marines and multiple reporting trips aboard amphibious ships and aircraft carriers. Her awards include multiple North Carolina Press Association Honors, the 2015 and 2017 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Heinl awards for feature writing, the Military Reporters and Editors Association 2015 award for domestic military coverage, and the 2016 American Legion 4th Estate Award for print reporting. She is also a member of the board of directors at the Military Reporters and Editors Association.

A graduate of The King's College in New York City, her work has also appeared in Marine Corps Times, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Sun, and World Magazine.

Email: hope.seck@military.com

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From left: Maj. Matthew Golsteyn, pictured in a 2011 photo as a captain; Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, walking into his trial, June 18, 2019; Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance. (Photo Credits from left: The Fayetteville Observer via AP; Associated Press; Courtesy Photo via Free Clint campaign)

Trump Restores Rank to SEAL, Grants Clemency for Soldiers in War Zone Crimes Cases

"As the President has stated, 'when our soldiers have to fight for our country, I want to give them the confidence to fight.'...

Body bearers from the Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. (8th and I), help conduct military funeral honors with funeral escort for Col. Werner Frederick Rebstock in Section 12 of Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 13, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser/Arlington National Cemetery)

The Most Muscular Unit in the Marine Corps Is Accepting Applications

If you can squat more than 300 pounds -- and then do it again nine more times -- the Marines may have an elite job for you.

As part of the intensive clinical program for post-traumatic stress at Home Base, veterans decorate masks that illustrate how they believe they present themselves to the world, contrasted with how they truly feel about themselves. Here are the two sides of one veteran's mask. (Hope Hodge Seck/Military.com)

This Squad-Style PTSD Therapy Runs Just 2 Weeks. And It's Changing Vets' Lives

Home Base is one of four locations offering the intensive clinical program, coordinated by Wounded Warrior Project.

Army Colonel Jeffrey D. Witt, Chief of Staff of U.S. Army Tank-automotive & Armaments Command administers the Oath of Enlistment at a joint enlistment ceremony during halftime at the Detroit Pistons Hoops For Troops game.(U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Stephen D. Doyle II)

Meet the Retired Generals Working to End Childhood Obesity for a Fitter Force

A report by the organization Mission: Readiness declared the child obesity epidemic a national security issue.

Photo of Master Sgt. Jeffrey Briar and Jennifer Crowley from their Sept. 22, 2019 beach ceremony (via GoFundMe)

After Marine Died on Their Wedding Day, Spouse Pleads for a Proper Goodbye

Marine Master Sgt. Jeffrey Briar died Sept. 22, 2019, shortly after he and Jennifer Crowley were married.

Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff. (Courtesy U.S. Air Force)

Air Force IDs Special Tactics Airman Lost Over Gulf of Mexico

He had previously completed deployments to Africa and Afghanistan.

Marine Found Dead Had Killed Wife's Boyfriend, Set Home on Fire

A Marine found dead in a burning home near Richlands, North Carolina, was killed in an act of self-defense by his estranged w...

In this Dec. 20, 2017, file photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mattis Constantly Put Out 'Dumpster Fires' Trump Administration Caused, Aide Claims

Snodgrass offers a rare look inside the operations of one of the so-called "adults in the room."

Marine Col. Daniel Hunter Wilson is escorted into a court-martial proceeding on Aug. 30, 2017, aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C. Photo by Hope Hodge Seck/Military.com

Colonel Released from Brig as Child's Family Denounces Military Provision That Freed Him

Marine Col. Daniel Wilson is out of the brig, thanks to a military appellate provision invoked to overturn his conviction.

Margaret DeSanti congratulates seniors during the Veterans Day celebration at Higly High School in Gilberton Friday , November 2, 2014. (David Jolkovski/East Valley Tribune)

Military Service Claims of Army Nurse in Viral Push-Ups Video Called into Question

The 84-year-old self-described Army nurse cranking out push-ups in her crisp Vietnam-era uniform might not be who she said sh...

U.S. Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter observes his portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 15, 2015. Carpenter is the youngest living Medal of Honor recipient. (DoD photo by D. Myles Cullen)

Kyle Carpenter Is Still Refusing to Hide His Scars

It's been nine years since the Medal of Honor recipient hurled himself onto a live grenade to save a fellow Marine.

The Army test fires a Patriot missile in a photo dated March 27, 2019. The Patriot missile system is a ground-based, mobile missile defense interceptor deployed by the United States to detect, track and engage unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise missiles, and short-range and tactical ballistic missiles. (U.S. Army photo by Jason Cutshaw)

Kamikaze Drones Could Deploy to Protect Patriot Missile Defense Batteries

The Army is looking to integrate counter-drone capabilities into existing Patriot systems.

Raytheon's high-energy laser counter-drone system is mounted on a Polaris MRZR all-terrain vehicle at the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in October 2019. Photo by Hope Hodge Seck

Air Force Getting Ready to Deploy a Drone-Killing Laser and Phaser

The Air Force is preparing to send vehicle-borne laser drone-killers overseas in just a few months.

A screenshot of Brig. Gen. Patrick Donahoe's Twitter page

Social Media OpSec Concerns Overstated, Army General Says

A general, a lieutenant, a cartoonist and the administrator of a controversial community Facebook page walk onto a stage.

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, Lt. Tammie Jo Shults, one of the first women to fly Navy tactical aircraft, poses in front of an F/A-18A with Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron (VAQ) 34 in 1992. After leaving active duty in early 1993, Shults served in the Navy Reserve until 2001. Shults was the pilot of the Southwest plane that made an emergency landing on April 17, 2018, after an engine explosion. (Thomas P. Milne/U.S. Navy via AP)

How Flying Navy Fighters Gave Southwest Pilot Tammie Jo Shults 'Nerves of Steel'

One of the first women to fly the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet in the 1980s, Shults recounts meeting opposition at every turn.

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A senior drill instructor inspects his platoon's alignment during Final Drill aboard Marine Recruit Depot San Diego on Oct. 1, 2012. (Liz Cisneros/U.S. Marine Corps)

Marine Drill Instructors’ 'Unacceptable' Comments About Women Must Stop, General Says

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Air Force Special Tactics Chief Awarded Silver Star for Raining Hell on the Enemy in Afghanistan

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FILE PHOTO -- A 21st Airlift Squadron C-17 Globemaster III pilot simulates aircraft procedures at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., March 14, 2017. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Sam Salopek)

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